The 16-year-old gave an emotional testimony about what he saw and heard in the days leading up to his father’s 2009 death: ‘My dad was hanging half off the bed, and his eyes kind of rolled in the back of his head.’
“We just cried,” Prince said Wednesday, his otherwise measured voice breaking. He said the loss of his father still haunts him.
“Nothing will ever be the same,” he said. “I can’t sleep at night. I have a hard time sleeping. For a while after he died, I became emotionally distant from a lot of people.”
“My sister came upstairs, but we kept pulling her downstairs. She was screaming the whole time saying she wants her daddy.”
Prince said he was in tears when the paramedics arrived and rushed the 50-year-old “Thriller” singer from the family’s rented mansion to UCLA Medical Center. He said relatives followed the ambulance to the hospital and hoped for the best.
“I told my sister something that my dad always told us, that angels were still watching over him, and there had to be angels on Earth.”
